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Following a third consecutive general election victory, the time has come for a "new intellectual and cultural approach" in building Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Tusnádfürdő/Băile Tușnad in Romania on Saturday, at the annual Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp (Tusványos).

MY-GATEWAY, an initiative by the European Commission’s Startup Europe project that aims to strengthen the capacities of high-tech start-ups and innovative SMEs in the CEE region, is offering ten tickets to the Lisbon Web Summit in November.

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, an agency of the European Union headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, reports a drop in the total number of irregular border crossings, with the route through Hungary continuing to see low numbers of migrants.

Education statistics in Hungary show a mixed picture. While the rate of employment among recent graduates is among the highest in Europe, and above the EU average, the rate of early leavers from education is also rising.

U.K. monthly business and finance magazine Euromoney has named OTP Bank the “Best Bank” in both Hungary and the CEE region in 2018, says a press release sent by the Hungarian bank to the Budapest Business Journal.

Forint liquidity of Hungaryʼs banking sector narrowed in June from a month earlier, which was mainly reflected in a decrease in the average stock of one-day deposits, the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) said in a report based on preliminary data on Thursday.

The strong momentum underway in Central Europe’s private equity markets should continue, although pricing increases may have reached a plateau, according to the Deloitte Central Europe Private Equity Confidence Survey.

The European Commission (EC) has confirmed its earlier projection for Hungaryʼs GDP growth this year of 4% in its Summer 2018 Interim Economic Forecast. The EC puts 2019 GDP growth at 3.2%, also confirming its previous forecast in May.

House prices rose by 4.7% in the EU in the first quarter of 2018, year-on-year, and by 0.7% compared to the previous quarter. Price growth in Hungary has been much higher, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.